Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is one of the key events in Israel’s history, comparing it to the Balfour Declaration.

“There are major moments in the history of Zionism, the Balfour Declaration, the founding of the state, the liberation of Jerusalem and Trump’s announcement yesterday,” said Netanyahu in a video published on social media.

“I told him: ‘My friend the president, you are going to make history.’ Yesterday, he made history,” he added.

Netanyahu said Trump’s decision was embraced by Israelis of all stripes and quoted a religious verse to invoke the Jewish people’s alleged emotional attachment to the city.

“This is a festive and unifying moment, for the right, the left, religious, secular,” he further claimed. “We are making Jerusalem our chief joy.”

Political bureau member of Hamas, Ezzet Resheq, acclaimed on Saturday evening the anti-normalization conference held in Kuwait, dubbing it a key step to isolate the Israeli occupation and disclose its crimes against the Palestinians.

Resheq said the conference is a slap on the face of the Israeli leaders who have left no stone unturned to meddle in the Gulf’s home affairs and spark strife in the region.

“Boycotting the Israeli occupation—children’s murderer—is a national and humanitarian duty that the Arab governments and world’s free peoples should take upon their shoulders,” said Resheq.

“We hail our Kuwaiti brothers and sisters for hosting the anti-normalization conference. This is a sign of Kuwait’s unyielding pro-Palestine position,” the Hamas leader added.

Resheq also thanked the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement-Gulf (BDS) for staging the conference under the auspices of the Speaker of the National Assembly of Kuwait, Marzouk Al-Ghanim.

The so-called “Conference to Resist Normalization” with Israel in the Arab Gulf dovetails the 100th anniversary of the notorious Balfour Declaration.

Thousands of people marched through London on Saturday to call on Britain to apologize for the Balfour Declaration.

Organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, protesters marched through the heart of London from outside the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square to Parliament Square in Westminster.

Head of the Palestine Initiative Mustafa al-Barghouti and the Palestinian Ambassador to London, Emmannuel Hasasian, were in attendance.

Some of the signs held at the London march included hundreds of "Free Palestine" placards and hand-written leaflets lashing out at the Balfour pledge.

The demonstration came as UK Prime Minister Theresa May this week celebrated the centenary of the controversial 1917 document which paved the way for the creation of the Israeli entity on occupied Palestinian land.

The Balfour Declaration, which is dated 7 November 1917, is a 67-word letter from Balfour, the foreign secretary of David Lloyd George’s British government, to Walter Rothschild, the leader of the British Jewish community, which is considered by Zionists to indicate British support for the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine.

While Israel reveres Arthur Balfour, naming streets and a Tel Aviv school after him, Palestinians decry his declaration as a promise by Britain to hand over land it did not own, which led to the displacement of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland.

A group of Malaysian rights groups organized, Friday morning, a vigil in front of the British Embassy in Kuala Lumpur protesting against the century-old Balfour Declaration.

The participants called on the UK government to “openly apologize to the Palestinian people” over the declaration, saying the UK’s colonial policy caused “mass displacement” and injustice.

They also stressed the Palestinian right of return to their homeland.

The demonstrators handed over a protest letter to the UK ambassador.

On November 2, 1917, British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour wrote a letter to Britain’s Jewish citizen Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild, expressing the government’s support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

Al-Quds International Institution in Malaysia and the Institute of Excellence for Islamic Jerusalem Studies held on Wednesday at the University of Utara a symposium under the theme “100 Years after the Balfour Declaration…Hope or Destruction.”

The symposium was attended by representatives from NGOs, professors, students and many noted figures interested in the Palestinian cause.

During the meeting, Abdul-Fattah al-Owaisi, a visiting professor of international relations at the university, talked about the historical circumstances that preceded and followed the signing of the Balfour declaration and the colonial reasons behind the decision to give the Jews such promise.

He also used documents issued by the British Foreign Office to highlight the manipulative colonial mentality that governed Britain’s relations with the Arabs at the time.

A short movie on the Balfour declaration, produced by the London-based Palestinian Return Center (PRC), was also screened during the symposium.